{{Short description|American politician (1905–1966)}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_name = Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso | name = Victor Anfuso | image = Victor Anfuso.jpg | state = New York | district = 8th | term_start = January 3, 1955 | term_end = January 3, 1963 | preceded = Louis B. Heller | succeeded = John J. Rooney (redistricting) | term_start2 = January 3, 1951 | term_end2 = January 3, 1953 | preceded2 = Joseph L. Pfeifer | succeeded2 = Louis B. Heller | birth_date = {{birth date text|March 10, 1905}} | death_date = {{death date and age|December 28, 1966|March 10, 1905}} | birth_place = Gagliano Castelferrato, Sicily, Italy | death_place = Manhattan, New York, US | citizenship = {{US}} | resting_place = St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York, US | children = | profession = Lawyer, politician, judge | party = Democratic | alma_mater = Brooklyn Law School <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United States}} | branch = {{flag|United States Army}} | service_years = 1943 until 1945 | rank = | unit = Office of Strategic Services | commands = | battles = World War II | awards = }} '''Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso''' (March 10, 1905 – December 28, 1966) was an American lawyer, World War II veteran, and politician who served five terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1951 to 1953, then again from 1955 to 1963.

==Biography== Born in Gagliano Castelferrato, Sicily, the son of Salvatore Anfuso and Mariannina L'Episcopo, he immigrated to the United States in 1914. He attended Columbia University and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1927. He married Frances Stallone on June 15, 1930.

==Career== Anfuso served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II from 1943 until 1945.

In 1950, Anfuso was elected to Congress and served from January 3, 1951, until January 3, 1953. He was the city magistrate of Brooklyn from February 1954 until his resignation in July 1954, when he was elected to Congress again and served from January 3, 1955, until January 3, 1963.<ref>{{cite web|title=Victor Anfuso|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/victor_anfuso/400891|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

Anfuso was elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1962 and served in that capacity until his death in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|title=Victor Anfuso|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000255|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

Anfuso appeared in the first segment of ''To Tell the Truth'' on March 5, 1957, as an imposter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal barber, Steve Martini.<ref>{{cite web|title=Victor Anfuso|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUcYFtjN1w |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/nHUcYFtjN1w |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|publisher=You Tube video, To Tell the Truth|access-date=17 September 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Death== Anfuso suffered a heart attack during a meeting at the Warwick Hotel and died soon after in Manhattan, New York, on December 28, 1966 (age 61 years, 293 days). He is interred at St. John Cemetery in Queens.<ref>{{cite web|title=Victor Anfuso|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andridge-anstine.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://archives.cmsny.org/2013/11/02/292/ Victor L. Anfuso Papers] at the [http://cmsny.org/ Center for Migration Studies of New York]. {{CongBio|A000255}} {{Portal|Biography}} *{{Find a Grave|6397934}}

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